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This will be a page to document the ID of Forestal (Dan).
This will be my own experience documenting another coral for ID, Gorgonian. The original started as a frag from local club trade. I have had for 3 years now, fragged many times. Sources used for ID: Aquarium Corals, Borneman; Soft Corals and Sea Fans, Fabricius & Alderslade. Main difficulty is I am unable to dissect out the polyps well, however this one i was mostly able to do this.
Coral used: original:

Fragment:

Live Coral under 10x power showing calyx detail with sclerites:

Bleached Sclerites under 10x power from polyp:

Scerites under 10x from wall:

Best guess is Plexaura but no direct comparison available of sclerite morphology due to being caribean i think

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